Post on Facebook Fan page as Admin

I was working on a project which needs to post feed/status on facebook fan page . Its easy and there are lots of example on web but the requirement was to post as the page admin not the user . There are lots of users on the facebook developers forum asking for this and in the doc http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/stream.publish there is one thing enable_profile_selector but there is an easy way .

First of all you have to install the app to the fan page . So first go to the application profile which will be like http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=XXXXXXXXXXXXX, xx is the application id and click on the Add to my page , from there choose your page and click Add to page. First part done

Now for coding , you have to save the session key of the admin of that page. Be sure that u have the offline_access,publish_stream and manage_pages permission , manage_pages is a new kind of extended permission we need to use to post on behalf of the page admin .

Then set the session and the user id of the admin

    $facebook = new Facebook(APP_ID,APP_SECRET);
    $facebook->api_client->user = $fb_userid;
    $facebook->api_client->session_key = $session_key;

And then call the stream_publish like this

  $link = 'http://www.mylink.com/';

$attachment = array( 'name' => 'Name of the feed',
        'href' => $link,
        'description' => 'Description of the post'
);

$image_link = 'Image Link';
$attachment['media'] = array(array(
                'type'=>'image',
                'src'=>$image_link,
                'href'=>$link
));
$status = json_encode($attachment);

try {
    $facebook->api_client->stream_publish('',$status,'','',$pageid);
}
catch(Exception $e) {
    print_r($e);
}

Thats it , enjoy

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